Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

Sam Jones will shortly begin work in
San Francisco.
Henry George proposes to go through
the country on a lecture tour next season.
The dealers in liquor and beer of Phila
delphia will contest the law divorcing beer and
music.
A bronze statue of John G. BreckeR-
ridge will be erected next fail at LeXing-
ton, Ky.
W. S. Webb of New York offers
$500 annually as a prize for the best landscape
by an American artist
Joaquin Miller, it is said, has pur-
chased tract of land at Fruit Vale, Cal, and is
going to establish "a literary colooy there
1t is said that molten iron is transpar-
ent Objects may be seen through the st cam
of mOlted metal during a castin., but they take
a yellow tnge.
Kngau & Co., Indianapolis packers,
have located a branch house at Kansas City 1t
Is The intention of kingan " 20. 10 remove
their Atchison business from Atchtson TO Kan
sas City as soon as the new plant is completed.
The average weekly production of fish
hooks at Redd,tch, ENGLAND, is 2O,0OO,O0O. At
the same time not less than 5000U,O0O of needles
are made in the place, and about two tons
weight of pins of all sorts, including shawl an
scarf pins.
| According to the Roman Catholic direC
! tory recently publish d, here are 413 priests
in the di cese of New York, 3l2 in BOs on, 287 in
Baltimore, 2S2 in Chicago, p in Pnila re phia,
254 IN st Louis, 227 in Milwaukee, and PIG in
Cincinnati
Mrs. Ruth Smith of Bridgeport, Conn,
DIRE sses in blue silk, wears blue spectacles, has
her eals served blue glass dishes, and
lives In a blue ass room, which she has not
left for more than ten minutes at time for
eight years
There was large meeting of promi-
nent democrats held at the Palmer house,
Chicago, last Saturday night take step to
reOrganize the party. convention will PROB
ably bee He'd for May 10, when the work re
organization will be performed and the Demo
Gratis again take The field.
Ga the 18th inst. Carwin, III, voted no
license for the first time in twenty years, the
m +jDrity being IN. Reports from 4rayville, in
White count ; McLeansbOrO, Hamilton county;
Eldorado, Saline county, and Mount Vernon,
Jefferson county, give signal victories for the
no license cause.
Congressman William L. Scott, whose
connections with railroad and ship ing inter
ests are heavy ana extensive, cast his vOts in
Congress in favor of the inter state commerce
law He was at The iftr Avenue hotel, New
York. on the 18th, and said that ne Xpects 10
see the law repealed at the next session of
Congress
Mr. Davis, the GOvernOr-eleCt of Rhode
Island and the Captain General elect of Provi-
dence Plantations, Democrat, will be inaugu-
rated lay "a. It is thirty odd years since any
state. Every band in the state has been
gagged, and negotiations are In progress for
few hundred drums, bugles and guns in Boston.
At q meeting of the Montreal CITY
Council on the 18th inst. q letter was read from
Sir George stephens and sir DOnall Smith
Otfe ing to donate $l,000,0O0 t establi h
jubilee no pital + the sick and suffering poor,
providing the city wo I'D grant a site on the
mOu tain side, known as the Taylor pr 'perty.
The Ouncil resolved to accept the offer and
further the scheme in every possible way.
Mrs. Sarah Howe, who fed from Bos-
ton in the early part of last week. after swim
ding her lady depositOrs out of $4,000 has
been living ct st. Johns, N B., for several DAYS
On Saturday she engaged fashionable resi-
"ence. he house adjOins the residence of
President MCLe Ian of the suspended Maritime
ba TX, whose furniture and effects she pr posed
to purchase He identity being dis Overed,
however, she was seized with fear and took an
early train for Canada,
The evils of easy divorce may be coun-
teracted either by RESTRICTING the power of
the courts to grant DEGREES, or by regulating the
mode of the marriage contract, prescribing
forms, reqUi ing publicity, ETC. In the Forum
70 May Judge Edmund Bennett OF BOstJn,
who strongly f1vors the second way of making
divorce less frequent, Will show how lightly the
contract of marriage Is treated in the legisla-
ton of IN st of the st ties. 1t is simply truth
and no eXsggeratiCn whatever that in many
states, notably New York. a man and Wo an,
boy and girl may be married with less
form and ceremony than attends the purchase
of peck Of potatoes.
Mr.. G. W. Clarke of Cincinnati was a
passenger on a recently arrived Australian
steamer. II was on Sunday that the gen il man
reached Sydney, and without losing time he
made for the hotel bar. There he was con
from ed by decidedly antique bar maid who
placidly, but very firmly informed him that it
was against the law of the colonies to sell
liquor upon the Sabbath unless 1t could be
shown that the applicant had actually Travelled
fifteen mi es Upon that day. The landlord was
finally cOaXed in to substantiate the fact that
he pleader at the bar had jast come all the
way from San Francisco. The drink was forth
coming, but when Mr.. Clarke began to reason
that If d man who has travelled fiji cen miles is
miles ought to ave a. many drinks as fifteen is
Contained in 70OO both the bar maid and the
Nndlord turned pale, a though neither would
gainsay the force of the mathematical logic.